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Ouattara for £43m makes Wissa for £35 Incredible business.

Linfield play Shelborne in the next round. They played 3 weeks ago in the Champions League first qualifying round

Fly... From Bournemouth to Brentford. Have a fucking word

I know it's pedantic, and I genuinely don't mind Downie, but "Taking first steps in the Toom" is incorrect, he's been up here for Villa

https://archive.ph/AfQDZ

I don't 100% know what this means, but it looks good

There has definitely been a narrative shift this week, a fair few pundits have been coming out and saying what Isak is doing is wrong, and he should be ashamed. It also seems the Ornsteins and Romano's are starting to have their tails between their legs, that Ornstein clip from yesterday, he seemed genuinely a bit shocked that his character was being questioned and was being held to account.

I hope there isn't a massive over-reaction when we get our annual 3-0 trouncing

I can believe its not butter.

I've not seen the penalties, but it looks like a few that were missed had the taker doing a stutter step, that seems to be in fashion these days. Is there actually any evidence to suggest that its beneficial? I get that it's to try and deceive the keeper, but you just don't get enough power on the ball as you would with a normal pen, so if the keeper goes the right way the chances are he's saving it. We need more Chloe Kelly's in the penalty world tbh.

Spurs lost? That's hilarious.

Outrageous delivery that.

If PSG are up for this, I feel like they could destroy Spurs here

For what it's worth, this is massively disingenuous, he wasn't implying that's what the club are going to do all. He was talking it though and just gave his opinion of what he would do if Isak where to follow through with the threat of going on strike post window, and was just making the point of what would be better, Isak staying and kicking up a fuss all season, or going with Wissa and Gordon as the striker option, and in his own opinion it would be the later.

That literally checks everything we needed in a CB. Pacey Tall Can play left or right. Can play in a three or a two Can make defense splitting passes What's the catch?

It looks like an absolutely stunning place mind.

I saw " Dominic Calvert-Lewin: on verge of sign..." On the homepage and my heart sank

An away game against Pafos would be a lovely trip for the lads.

We've signed a hell of a lot of young talent under PIF like: Kuol, Minteh, Park, Murphy, Vilca, Pivas, Ashby, Livramento, Hall, Osula, Salia, Cordero, and they're just the noticeable ones.

That is certainly a take

Just for reference, Bournemouth have just signed Bafode Diakite a CB from Lille, for basically the exact same price as we signed Thaiw. £30.3m + £4.3m, he also 24 same as Thaiw. Not sure what it particularly means, but I thought it was mildly interesting.

I'm fairly certain that "Nickson taking over" rumour is pure bullshit, it feels like its just fluid, with individual people leading on different deals at any one time (obviously they'll all have some sort of involvement at varying stages of a player recruitment), as by all accounts, Andy Howe was the one leading the Thaiw deal, and it was Nickson and Reuben leading the negotiations for the Sesko move.

People complaining about his injury record, ye of little faith...

Given every club seems to have these announcement videos these days, I quite like ours.

Its all heating up today, I can smell what Andy Howe is cooking. Get Wissa in and it's a solid floor raising window, in which our overall squad has improved dramatically, even if there isn't a "marquee" signing. Literally every position we said we needed pre-window would have been sorted if we get Wissa and Ramsey. Starting RW, backup CB, rotational CM, a GK of some description, a backup ST.